that is just enough for a room with a twin bed and oven, refrigerator, a sink and a small kitchen table. did i say bathroom? no. joe vasquez is here with on who these shoe box apartments are geared towards. >> the small apartments in san fransisco could get smaller. >> a little cramped, it is a little cramped. >> patrick kennedy from a development firm showed me his life-size model of the tiniest apartment allowed by the state. a little smaller than the one being proposed for san fransisco. rant would start at $900 per month. he says that there are 50,000 new college students and 8000 workers in the technology field coming into services for every year. >> if we can build several thousand new units of housing for that demographic, single students and a single technology workers, we can relieve pressure. >> we fight all the time to make sure that renters live in decent housing conditions. >> but how decent would be, she wonders, if the tiny apartment becomes the new affordable housing? >> we're concerned about the precedent it sets. that is ok for people to live in these very tiny shoebox